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How to Make A Monster Write – Up
This past Sunday, I had the opportunity attend a workshop hosted by the IFAST team that featured Charlie Weingroff as the speaker. I was actually surprised at the number of attendee’s. There were probably over 50 people in attendance. It was great. Once again, most of the people in attendance were from out of state. I guess the trainers here in Indy are already good enough. They don’t need to get better (sarcasm). Anyways, here’s some ideas and notables I took from the talk:
- Joint Centration is the ideal balance of prime movers and stabilizers acting on a joint.
- Phasic muscles = prime movers ie the ones you see.
- Tonic muscles = stabilizers ie the ones you don’t see.
- A good screening tool will assess Neurodevelopment, Pain and Motor Control, Regional interdependence, and have a High Threshold Strategy.
- Train Slow doesn’t = be slow.
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Basic Nutrition For Athletes
I’m going to preface this post by mentioning that I am NOT a registered dietitian. If you have health conditions, you should consult with your doctor before making any changes to your diet.
“What should I eat?” or “What should my kids eat?” are probably the two most frequent questions hear from my parents and athletes. So, I figured I would go ahead and write a little something to give you some guidelines to follow.
First, let’s get a bit of background info in what Calories, Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Fats are.
Protein
Protein is basically the building blocks of muscle and other tissue in the body. Good sources of protein are chicken breasts, fish, turkey, and lean beef. Try to eat the least processed meat possible. You should be able to tell where the meat come from on an animal. For example, I know where the breast is on a chicken. I have no idea where a hot dog or bologna came from.
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A Definition of Hard Work and Commitment
There is a recent blog post on the strengthcoach blog about the disconnect between the trainer and client. Read the post here. I really liked the post and thought that I would share it with you.
The article talks about the difference between what is important to the client and what the trainer perceives to be important to them. While fitness may be the number one priority for the trainer, it may only be 3rd or 4th on the list for the client. To the client, fitness is typically just something they do a couple of times per week to fulfill a need to lose weight, reduce medications, or increase self-esteem. The quicker the trainer realizes this, the better.
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Why Most Speed And Agility Camps Don’t Work
Every off season, parents come up to me and ask, “Do you have a speed camp going on right now.” My answer, “No.” They’re usually pretty surprised by that answer. The reason we don’t do them is simple. Most of them don’t work.
There are a couple of reasons why most of them don’t work. The first being that training should be a constant thing. It’s not something you pick up for four or six weeks during the offseason and then put it down till next season. When we’re talking about things like running mechanics, the only way to get good and stay good at them is through repetition. I’ve seen it many times. I’ll work with a kid till their season starts; then they come back afterwards and they are back to their same bad, slow habits. Perfect practice makes perfect.
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Top 10 things Learned And Achieved For 2011
Yesterday, I received an email from one of my clients that I thought I would share with everyone. I thought it was pretty cool. She put together a list of things she learned and achieved over the course of the year while working out with us. Here’s her list:
1. Designating 4 specific days and times at the gym is more effective than saying I’ll go 4 days a week.
2. I have kept 90% of my training appointments in the past year.
3. I have trained a minimum of 3 sessions per week for 13 months now, the longest workout streak of my life.
4. The number on the scale is my daily FYI, fluctuating often and therefore, no longer makes or breaks me.
5. I look forward to working out.
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Top Ten Of 2011
Yep, it’s that time of year again. At the end of each year, I go back and review which of my posts got the most web traffic. Here’s this year’s top ten:
1. Does Muscle Fiber Type Effect Performance In this post I talk about the differences in muscle fiber type and how it affects an athlete’s performance.
2. The John Broz Method One of the more popular topics in the strength training world in 2010 was the training that John Broz does in his Las Vegas gym. This post discusses my opinions on what he does.
3. The Real Reasons Why People Don’t Exercise The name says it all. These are the reasons why people don’t workout.
4. Is A Calorie Really A Calorie? In this post, I discuss some of the myths about nutrition.
5. Spot Reduction Revisited In this article, I talk about a T-Nation article on spot reduction.
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This Is Who We Are.
At Nunn’s Performance Training, we are about half way through our second year being in business. During that time, we have always kind of struggled with our identity. Are we an adult fitness studio? Are we sports performance? What is our brand? Are we corporate wellness? For most businesses, these types of things are usually decided before it is ever incorporated. For me, it wasn’t. This business was started out of necessity. Not an “entrepreneurial seizure” as Micheal Gerber would put it. Every gym that I had worked for had a failing business model and went under quickly. So quickly that I had to scramble to figure out something to keep cash flowing in. This is where Nunn’s Performance Training was born. So when setting up my business, I looked at who my clients were. I had a handful of adults and a handful of middle school and high school athletes. All of which have been with me for several years and through a couple different failed gyms. They followed me from one gym to another, my garage, and eventually into a space I could call my own. Why did they follow me? Because they were serious about being the best versions of themselves.
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Five Ways To Improve Your Speed On The Field
You can tell by my nonexistent writing on here that Soccer and Football season are over and that means my offseason programs are in full swing. This means that plenty of athletes are gracing the Nunn’s Performance Training doorstep wanting to improve their speed and overall athletic performance. Here’s five things we work on to make sure our athletes are among the fastest out there:
1. Technique
Technique is by far the most important thing when it comes to speed. It doesn’t matter how explosive, strong, or whatever you are. If your technique is flawed, you’ll never be at your full potential. The most prominent thing we see is arms that cross the body (think right hand crossing the face and touching the left cheek). If this is happening, your arms are producing too much rotational force to elicit good forward propulsion. Just fixing this habit can have a dramatic effect on speed and agility.
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Energy System Development for Soccer
Lately, energy system developement (otherwise known as conditioning for you old school folk) has been a very hotly contested subject between soccer coaches and strength coaches. It usually ends with the soccer coaches erring on the side of aerobic training (long, slow distance) and strength coaches siding with alactic and glycolytic training (short bursts – otherwise known as anaerobic). The question is…who’s right?
In a recent study published by the American College of Sports Medicine, Osgnatch et. al. found that about 70% of the time was spent doing low-level, aerobic activities with about 30% of the time spent on higher intensity movements. Running full speed accounted for about 3% of the total match time or the equivalent of a 4 second sprint every 90 seconds.
Ok, so what does this mean?
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Change Requires CHANGE
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”- Albert Einstein
Many people come to me because they want to make a change in their life. Whether it be weight loss or becoming a better athlete, change is required. If your goal is weight loss, you’ve got to make changes. Big ones. Probably the thing I see most often are people who come in and think that because they workout one time per week and don’t change their eating habits, they will get results. Sorry, it’s not happening. Actually, we’ve taken away the one time per week training option all together. I now only take on serious clients who are ready to make changes. Dr. Robert Adkins (of Adkins Diet Fame) once said, “You became overweight because you did something unbalanced. It should stand to reason that you will have to do something unbalanced to lose the weight.” Basically, he’s saying that you sat around and ate too much and that’s why you gained weight. Why does it surprise you that you’ll have to do the opposite of that to lose the weight? Change is hard for many people, but if its worth it for you, you’ll do it. Like the video below says, if you want to be successful, you need to want it worse that you want to breath. Are you willing to make those changes? |
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